Dairy breed

Usage examples of holstein.

The Acheulean sites at Abbeville are of the same age as the Holstein interglacial and would thus be about 330,000 years old.

Pollnitz must come, and Eckert, and Baron von Goltz, and Hacke, the Duke of Holstein, and General Schwerin.

Peter III from Holstein in the eighteenth century, but his father, Professor of Public Law at the University of Warsaw, was already more than half Russian by blood and an extreme Slavophil in his ideas.

In 1792 in the Duchy of Holstein there was an industrious laborer named Stender who died at one hundred and three, his food for the most part of his life having been oatmeal and buttermilk.

I am expecting every hour the arrival of Count Holstein, brother of the Elector of Mainz.

The building, with its enormous expanse of tables and benches ex- hibiting everything from angel food cake to stalks of corn 14 feet high, seemed to have about as many afternoon visitors as usual, who either hadn't heard the news from the Holstein shed or were contrary enough to be more interested in flowers and vegetables than in corpses.

Where by day our small herd of Holsteins drank, grazed, drowsed on their stolid feet slowly filling their enormous milk-bags, near-motionless as black-and-white papier-mache, beasts, only the twitching of their tails, warding off flies, to give you the idea they're alive.

Lifted the seat, unzipped and urinated into the bowl with no more self-consciousness than one of our Holsteins pissing into the very pond out of which she and the other cows are drinking.

He will wait until our factories are no more and our presses are dismantled and the lot of us are in the fields milking Holsteins and tending flocks of sheep with our thumbs up our agrarian asses.

Just a boxy, two-story farmhouse, unchanged, as far as he could tell, from when the Tikalskys raised Holsteins and children here.

We passed farms where men in coveralls and earflapped caps were herding Holsteins to white buildings for the morning milking.

Holsteins nudge pasture gates, ready for the confinement of their stanchions and the morning's date with the milking machine.

Milks a hundred Holsteins an hour in a computerized milking parlor.

He was in the stable under the barn, sitting on a milking stool with his forehead against the black and white flank of a Holstein cow.

Both Germany and Denmark claimed Schleswig and Holstein, and the people living there were forever arguing about who they should belong to.